I put photos of flowers from my garden or the bush onto printed letters to Mum each week. I have a problem with getting the photos of purple flowers to print purple. They look purple on the screen, but they print out looking blue. I can fiddle with the colour temperature a bit, but I still can’t get it to work quite right. But it seems to be a bit variable. This iris photo just printed out quite blue:

But this one printed out pretty much the right colours.

It’s no the greatest problem in my world, but it would be nice to know how to make them print more purple. Any ideas?

https://mann-co.com/5-troublesome-colors-to-get-right-during-printing/

3. Purple Can Be a Royal Pain
While purple isn’t one of the most commonly used colors in marketing and promotional material, it’s undoubtedly one of the most challenging colors to print accurately. Whether there is a correlation here or if it’s merely a funny coincidence is debatable.

The color purple has long been associated with royalty, which is quite fitting in this case as it can be a royal pain when printing it out—one of the most troublesome colors.

While purple is difficult to print accurately, the reasons behind this difficulty are rather compelling. The color purple has elements in it that fall outside of the printable gamut. Purple is among the deepest and strongest of colors, which makes it hard to capture. Its distinctive hue, saturation, and chromaticity all serve to make it more difficult to print,

Cymek said:

https://mann-co.com/5-troublesome-colors-to-get-right-during-printing/

3. Purple Can Be a Royal Pain
While purple isn’t one of the most commonly used colors in marketing and promotional material, it’s undoubtedly one of the most challenging colors to print accurately. Whether there is a correlation here or if it’s merely a funny coincidence is debatable.

The color purple has long been associated with royalty, which is quite fitting in this case as it can be a royal pain when printing it out—one of the most troublesome colors.

While purple is difficult to print accurately, the reasons behind this difficulty are rather compelling. The color purple has elements in it that fall outside of the printable gamut. Purple is among the deepest and strongest of colors, which makes it hard to capture. Its distinctive hue, saturation, and chromaticity all serve to make it more difficult to print,

> The color purple has elements in it that fall outside of the printable gamut.

True.

One of these day’s I’ll take a look at the actual visual spectra of azo dyes to see what can be done about it, and what else is missing.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

https://mann-co.com/5-troublesome-colors-to-get-right-during-printing/

3. Purple Can Be a Royal Pain
While purple isn’t one of the most commonly used colors in marketing and promotional material, it’s undoubtedly one of the most challenging colors to print accurately. Whether there is a correlation here or if it’s merely a funny coincidence is debatable.

The color purple has long been associated with royalty, which is quite fitting in this case as it can be a royal pain when printing it out—one of the most troublesome colors.

While purple is difficult to print accurately, the reasons behind this difficulty are rather compelling. The color purple has elements in it that fall outside of the printable gamut. Purple is among the deepest and strongest of colors, which makes it hard to capture. Its distinctive hue, saturation, and chromaticity all serve to make it more difficult to print,

> The color purple has elements in it that fall outside of the printable gamut.

True.

One of these day’s I’ll take a look at the actual visual spectra of azo dyes to see what can be done about it, and what else is missing.

Great idea. You should do that.